Уральский государственный университет путей сообщения | |
Other name | USURT |
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Motto | With us to success! |
Type | Public |
Established | 1956 |
Rector | Alexandr G. Galkin |
Academic staff | over 900 |
Students | over 18,000 |
Location | , , Russia |
Colours | Blue and Green |
Website | www |
Ural State University of Railway Transport (USURT) or Уральский государственный университет путей сообщения (УрГУПС) is a public university situated in Yekaterinburg, Russia. It was founded in 1956. USURT is a multidisciplinary technical university mainly focused on training of railway transport specialists of the Urals Federal District.
USURT is a vertically integrated educational complex located in the territory of five constituent entities of the Russian Federation: Yekaterinburg, Perm, Kurgan, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen. The university complex includes the head university in Yekaterinburg, a railway transport college, a medical college, institutes in Chelyabinsk, Perm, and Kurgan, branches in Nizhny Tagil and Tyumen, a representative office in Kartaly.